Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The conundrum of memory

By Capt. FoggSometimes I get to wondering, sometimes I get confused about what our
conservative brethren are trying to tell us. I was reminded recently
that my former Republican congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL), amongst others, vociferously threatened to impeach the president
for having provided air traffic control for the UN incursions into
Libya; for having exceeded his constitutional authority by arming Syrian
rebels. Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) back in June of 2013, threatened to
impeach
President Obama if any U.S. troops are killed in Syria. Is there a
relationship between rhetorical amplitude and political passion and the
shortness of its half-life?

I ask because currently the same party is chastising him for not having gone into Syria thus allowing ISIS a breeding ground. We need those airstrikes -- why didn't he make those airstrikes? We need airstrikes,
says John McCain, in his time-worn tradition of damning Obama if he
does or if he doesn't. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants to commit ground
troops. This is all "due to our total inaction. And it's going to be one of the more shameful chapters in American history," says John McCain.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) said on Face the Nation that the president's limited foreign policy is no longer acceptableon. I have no
idea whether that refers to the nearly a hundred airstrikes the Obama
administration has unilaterally launched into Northern Iraq to help the
hopelessly rickety and incompetent government Republicans bragged about
setting up not long ago, but we can be assured of at least one thing:
Republicans will damn him for doing it and damn him for not stepping in
earlier back when they were trying to impeach him for it.

1 Comments:

I will never understand today's Republican. I can barely comprehend the ideas of the old guard. The uptight Republican of today is confused in more ways than one, confused about war, about government's role, and of course about sex and identity. The poor bastards. The poor reprehensible bastards who don't see a problem with polluting for short term profit, as they complain about litter on public beaches. They're not stupid. They're just extremely messed up - and dangerous.